He has been friends with Kurt since 2nd grade. My husband and I have been together for 15 years and this this only the second time i have seen him cry.

They hadn't been in close contact in the last few years but it is still hurting him.

We, the community of Houma has lost 5 from our "black sheep" national guard unit in this one bombing.

You know I read ya'll political/war post and know what is going on but it never really felt real before.

Now it is real, up close and way to personal. Kurt left a wife and 3 boys 1 9 yrs old and 7 yr old twins.

When will all this end? My God I don't even understand what we are still fighthing for?

It is just so unfair for all our men and women out there fighting and families struggling to make it without them.

I'm so sorry for you and your husband, and this wonderful man's family.

Heartfelt condolances..

Mo

That is absolutely terrible.

His poor wife and children.

Will be praying for your family and his. My list of people to pray for is just getting longer and longer.

I feel just horriable for you and your husband. I will be thinking about you!

God Bless his family!! His wife and 3 kids!

I have not lost anyone close to me yet in this war, but I lost a cousin to GWI

quote:

---

Originally posted by 24bit:
You guys don't know anything about Vietnam obviously.

---

and you obviously know nothing about empathy and decency, didn't even bother to send your condolences.....

my blessings to you and yours Starr.

did you fight in Nam 2-bit?

i've studied the Vietnamese-American conflict intensively, i've even travelled to Vietnam and spoken to people who fought with and against the American forces.

what is the qualification of your expertise? you bought Platoon on DVD?

your post is a narcisstic, selfish detachment from the thread. truly pitiful.

My neighbor lost her Grandson before the holidays.Great kid.

Loss of loved ones is so hard and it will take time to heal the broken hearts. God is faithful and shall gather his children to his breast and cover them with his comfort and peace at this time.

Whether or not this war will prove the right or wrong thing, there will always be opinions for and against just as there still are re: Vietnam.

Regardless, God is in control of life and death, and Star you know righteousness and justice have already been won, yet we see not the fruits her on earth presently. The day is coming when ;
"God Himself shall be among them and shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there shall no longer be any death; there shall be no longer any mourning, or crying, or pain; the old things have passed away and HE who sits on the throne will make all things new"!

Pretty awesome, huh?

I am so very sorry to hear this. Wishing his family and friends comfort and healing.

my sincere condolences, lori

Just hard to understand and watch. My husband is going from grief to anger which I guess is normal.

I really feel for Kurt's mom,she just lost Kurt's dad in Oct and now her son. I can't even begin to imagine her pain.

As always there are pro and con's to everything. Still I never understood the war.

I pray so much for ALL the men and women out there and their families back home. It just isn't fair to them.

Thanks again for ya'll love and support.

Weeza you are sooo right. Actually just read that same thing this morning.

Today my husband and I were talking that we should "Live like you were dying" and now he really, really understands that song.

It is ashame that it takes something so bad to make you stop and think and re-evulated your life.

I have always know that you guys on Lymenet were the greatest. Just want ya'll to know how much I appreciate all of ya'll.

I love that song and boy can I appreciate it but its too bad now that your husband has to know this way how to appreciate it.

We're all sending you a gigantic group hug.....

Hope you can feel it !

I do not know where to begin....

So many thoughts are going through my mind.
My condolences should be first and foremost.

I will say a special prayer for you, your husband and his family he left behind.

Weeza is right and that is how I have been able to get through all the days without him (my husband) here.

I spoke to him on the phone Friday.
He had not been able to get on the phone of or the net because they turn them off when something happens to a soldier in order for the family to be notifies first.

He lost 3 from his camp (39th from AR) on Thursday. That may be one of the men you are talking about. I asked him if he knew them and he said yes.

He said he happened to go on patrol with them just a week earlier and they travel through the same place everyday.

My heart completely sunk.
If you haven't already.....re-read what Weeza wrote.
I have already read it three times.

Awesome, yes.

Bless his family and carry them through these rough times that lay ahead.

Sending my deepest sympathy,
Amanda

Amanda, I have always kept you and others on this board with family in the service in special prayers.

I don't know how you stay so strong with your husband there fighting this battle and you at home with the kids fighting the lyme battle. I admire you more then you will ever know.

I have been reading alot more new articles and post to try and understand some stuff but I think it is a lost cause for me to understand.

I think like Weeza said Weather or not this war will prove right or wrong....

I believe that big time, but I also believe it needs to end.

Amanda please know your family and all the soliders serving our country are always in my prayers.

I just went to general support looking for a post from "darth --- vader?" about his losing his Mom to lyme.

I posted many sympathy poems on his post. May I suggest doing a search for his name or going to general support? My pc locked up & wouldn't let me go to screen 3 after Jan. 6. Hope you find some poems to give to his family. Betty G., Iowa

I am so sorry to here about the loss suffered in your community. War is so hard to understand and tragic for what ever the reason for it.

Even though my father survived he still suffers from the lingering mental effects from the Korean war he went into at age 19. He is now in his 70's. It touched all our lives at some point. Starr I will keep your family in my prayers.

Amanda I will keep your family in my prayers also. I can only imagine how hard this must be on your family and especially your husband. I do pray that the goals for this war are met soon and our men and women are returned home to their families.

Cindy

Beach4so,

Starr,

My sincere condolences.

My husband can't believe the support you guys have provided for everything over the last year and half.

The community has really stepped up to help all the families involved in this and I can say it has diffently made people stop and think.

Hard to believe I have been around here that long.

Hopefully one day my life slows down a little so i can spend more time on here.

Getting ready for a work related trip to Elk City OK, never been out that way before should be interesting.

SBM: Thank you....prayer is ALL we need right now!

Yes, the kindness/goodwill of communities can totally surprise you in times like these.

~A Million Miles Away~
----Author Unknown
A Soldier by title ~ A Soldier all day and night.
When will you have time to be a husband to your wife?
You will be there for her in spirit and always in her thoughts.
You try to make her happy, though the Army twists your plans in knots!
An Army Wife by title ~ Called a privilege by the few.
She'll Stick by her husband, that's what she will do.
He may be at home or a million miles away, But in her heart he will always stay.

l

~The Military wife's Life~
by Alexandra Benakis

The military wife has so much to bear,
She's everything at once, no one could compare,
When God made her, he had perfection in mind,
For nowhere on Earth is another of her kind,
She leads a life not many choose to,
For her job is the hardest in the military to do,
She is couragerous and strong, one would say made of steel,
But way deep down is a heart that can feel,
She stands by her husband, so proud and so tall,
And waits many night by the phone for a call,
She's Mommy and Daddy all rolled into one,
She'll never rest easy until her job's done,
She sits all alone and in silence she weeps,
Did I do a good job, is my family okay?
But deep in her heart she knows that it's true,
God is right beside her helping her through...
�

Be sure to pack your thermals. Last time (and only time) I was in Elk City it was January and -10.

My husband was in the Air Force in the original Gulf "war".

A pilot on our base was killed/ shot down. The family received a notice to get off base. They were given a deadline of 3 weeks.

Because his body was not recovered his pay was stopped and the wife had no access to his income--supposidly for up to 10 years.

My husband was over in Oman, but was sent back when our youngest son became critically ill. But the Air Force guys had air conditioned tents and were well off.

Probably the worst was that as a "joke", one of the commanders of the base sent out formal invitations to the wives of the men that were overseas.

The invitations said that they wanted to treat the wives to a nice dinner for all that they had been through.

The women got dressed up and went to the "dinner". Instead they were seated and thrown MRE's to eat.

***
My dad was in Vietnam but came back after a bleeding ulcer.

I just now saw this post and send you and your husband, your friend's family and your community my condolences and prayers.

This is a tragic war.

When I saw the headlines online a day or two ago about 6 national guardsmen being returned to the Belle Chase area suddenly your name flashed before me.

I was not sure why and tonight I read this.

Yes, it is a painful thing that our nation finds itself in.

There really are no words to speak at this point except, "Save the flower of our youth and get us out of Iraq!"

Peace and Blessings,
Maggie

I don't even know the guy well but seeing everything in the paper has just torn my heart out. My husband is hanging in there, been talking to alot of "old" buddies from school.

We are suspose to go and hopefully I can make it, He is going with or without me.

I am getting ready for a 2 week trip out of state and am busting my butt so I can make the funeral with him.

Just the thought of it makes me cry and I can hear those guns going off for the 21 gun salute. My dad had that and I will NEVER EVER forget the sound of taps and then the shots. This time it has even more meaning then when my dad died.

I just hope the media doesn't over do it at the services. I noticed some of the arragements had "private" or "no media/spectators allowed". It is ashame that they have to do that.

If that is ok with ya'll?